THERE'S A BIG LIFE AHEAD OF HER.
CAN SHE FIND THE COURAGE TO LIVE IT?
Emma is twenty-six -- pretty, intelligent, and happily
living with her childhood sweetheart John in a cute little
Dublin apartment. Her biggest problem is that her mother
won't stop nagging her to get married already. Emma and
John feel like the perfect couple, their future alive with
possibilities. But out of the blue, a tragedy throws her
life into disarray -- and Emma is suddenly,
incomprehensibly, alone.
As she emerges from grief, Emma has to find a whole new
way of living, and her loyal friends rally round in an
attempt to help. Clodagh, Emma's lifelong friend, with
whom she's shared everything from mud pies to dating
disasters. Anne and Richard, more-or-less happily married
and debating a move to the country. Emma's brother Noel,
the young Catholic priest, finding his own faith tested
even as he tries to comfort Emma. Seรกn, the gorgeous bad
boy of a thousand one-night stands, uncomfortably aware of
his and Emma's growing connection. Witty, acerbic, and
sometimes downright shocking, Emma documents the stories
of her friends and her own recovery from grief with a
candor that engages the reader from the very first page.
With an amazing insight into the power of friendship and a
wry, irreverent humor that considers no subject off-
limits, talented new Irish writer Anna McPartlin tells a
heartwarming story of the courage it takes to move past
loss and learn to live.
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